Comment by awbvious

Though, of course, this is blatant stealing.

So, now we're talking 100% blatant lying and 33.3% (at least) blatant stealing. All extremely unethical. But in service of a greater good right? That is, if indeed, this is the only way, or even the best way, to trolley utopia. If indeed there is the runaway horse carriage problem that this will fix. And Samsamelo knows the right way to steer those horses. Of course, a utopia is forever good, right? So, one would never know for sure, funny how that is.

Well, this 33% of Samsamelo does get a bit of a comeuppance. As almost never happens, and why these black boxes do so well, someone else got a glimpse in the box and how little was actually still in there. Instead of actually money, it was pieces of paper issued by himself for his own potential trolley parts and priced entirely and fictitiously by him. His way of “making” more money is later legally proven as fraud, which is basically lying and theft at the same time.

Notably, some investors at the time were seemingly content to invest in only the box/fraud making a “profit” off the investors who wanted the pieces of paper. In a sense, this type of investor invested only in Samsamelo being able to convince others to invest. For example, Theter Piel is shown in court documents to invest in the box, but there is no evidence he ever wanted any of the pieces of paper supposedly pegged to the money to the box. As one wouldn't, if one were trusting in a person to make you money, but completely distrusting of the product ostensibly involved.

But of course, those investors needed the other type of investor, the ones who took the pieces of paper. To be fair, they aren't less intelligent than Theter, these investors just didn’t have the legal options to invest in just the box like Theter, an accredited US venture capitalist, does. To these investors, this is one of the few ways to invest available to them.